Jane Avril

Prints and Drawings

1899

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864-1901

This poster was Lautrec’s last image of Avril. With her arms raised in a playful surrender, the dancer yields to an appliquéd snake, whose coils wrap around her slender black dress.
Her twisted body might seem exaggerated, but it could have been prompted by Avril’s performances. As the poet Arthur Symons recalled, “She was so thin and supple that she could turn over backward…until she brushed the floor with her shoulders.”

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Title: Jane Avril
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1899
Medium: Color lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions: Image, incl. stray marks: 55.6 × 30.9 cm (21 15/16 × 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 55.6 × 37.6 cm (21 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
Reference Number: 1949.1009
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Wittrock p29 b/b

Metzger 354 II/II

Duvigneau, Götz 323

Delteil 367

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